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चरागों का लगा मेला ये झांकी खूबसूरत है

Charagon Ka Laga Mela Ye Jhanki Khubsurat Hai

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4 verses · ~1 min

चरागों का लगा मेला ये झांकी खूबसूरत है मगर वो रौशनी है कहाँ मुझे जिसकी जरुरत है ये ख़ुशी लेके मैं क्या करूँ मेरी है अब तलक रात काली

जगमगाते दियो मत जलो मुझसे रूठी है मेरी दिवाली ये ख़ुशी लेके मैं क्या करूँ

जिनसे रोशन थी ये ज़िन्दगी वो तो जाने कहीं चल दिए रौशनी मेरे आकाश को देने वाले कहीं चल दिए चल दिए है मेरे देवता जिनका मंजर पड़ा आज खाली जगमगाते दियो मत जलो मुझसे रूठी है मेरी दिवाली

मैं जितना आज हूँ उतना ना था उदास कभी चले गए वो बड़ी दूर जो थे पास कभी अनाथ कर गए मुझको बिसारने वाले बिना बताये अचानक सिधारने वाले कहा हो ऐ मेरी बिगड़ी सँवारने वालों पुकार लो मुझे बेटा पुकारने वालों

इति

Rasa: Karuna
Stanzas: 4
Lines: 22
Reading time: ~1 min
Form: Geet (lyric song)
Metre: Geet
Rhyme: irregular

The emotional atmosphere is one of profound grief and aching loneliness, suffused with the heavy, tearful sorrow of karuna rasa. Visually, a painting of this scene would depict a solitary figure sitting in the dim, unlit corner of a home while the outside world glows warmly with the festive, glittering lights of Diwali lamps. The canvas would contrast the vibrant, mocking brilliance of endless rows of earthen lamps with the deep, suffocating darkness surrounding the orphaned protagonist, whose parents have departed to the heavens. Implied symbolically is the bitter irony of a collective festival of joy highlighting individual abandonment, transforming symbols of hope into reminders of an irretrievable past. The overall artistic tone is intensely tragic and desolate, capturing the poignant yearning of a child crying out in vain for the guiding lights of their lost guardians.

चरागों का लगा मेला ये झांकी खूबसूरत है (Charagon Ka Laga Mela Ye Jhanki Khubsurat Hai), by Kavi Pradeep runs to 22 lines across 4 stanzas, set as Three stanzas expressing grief during a festival. Its governing rasa is Karuna, shaded by Shanta. The metre is Geet. Rhyme falls as irregular.

A melancholic song depicting the pain of celebrating Diwali alone after losing one's parents or guardians.

Read it for प्रियजनों के बिना त्योहारों का फीका पड़ जाना and अनाथ होने का गहरा दुःख और पुकार. 2 words in it carry older or regional senses, so the poem rewards a second pass.

The verse is hung beside Harishchandra and Taramati: Bathed in a suffocating atmosphere of profound grief and tragic isolation, King Harishchandra stands watchfully with a staff beside a flickering funeral pyre where Queen Taramati weeps bitterly over the lifeless body of…

Words worth pausing on

झांकी: दृश्य या प्रदर्शन
मंजर: दृश्य या स्थान

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Loneliness Grief Memory

The Poet

प्रदीप

Kavi Pradeep

1915 · 1998

Kavi Pradeep possessed a voice that became the emotional anchor of a newly independent nation. Born Ramchandra Narayanji Dwivedi in 1915 in Badnagar, Madhya Pradesh, he chose the pen name Pradeep and devoted his literary life to the cause of Indian freedom and national unity. He did not write poetry for elite literary circles. He wrote for the soldier, the farmer, and the ordinary citizen. When the 1962 war with China left the nation shattered, Pradeep penned the immortal lyrics of Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo. Sung by Lata Mangeshkar, this song famously moved Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to tears and permanently enshrined Pradeep in the hearts of millions. Throughout his career, he wrote over seventeen hundred songs and poems, including the defiant anti colonial anthem Door Hato Ae Duniya Walo. Recognizing his monumental contribution, the government honored him with the title of Rashtrakavi and the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award. He passed away in 1998, but his words continue to define the purest essence of Indian patriotism. He proved that a single song can heal the wounds of an entire country.